NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, November 29, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-755 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Attempted Takeover and Reopening of Park

On Friday, November 17th, Arizona Governor Fife Symington and about 100 state
employees - including 50 unarmed National Guardsmen - gathered at the Grand
Canyon Airport just outside the park to take over and reopen the park.  The
park had been officially closed at 8 a.m. on November 16th.  Over 150 media
representatives and ten satellite trucks accompanied the state contingent.  The
delegation departed following several hours of sensitive negotiations,
including calls to Secretary Babbitt, the White House, the U.S. Attorney's
Office and members of the Arizona Congressional delegation.  Legal counsel on
both sides advised that there was no legal basis for the governor's proposed
actions.  Governor Symington and Secretary Babbitt were scheduled to resume
negotiations by telephone on November 19th, but they were called off because
the park reopened along with the rest of the government.  It is possible that
the state will offer additional assistance and a cash donation to keep the park
open if a second government shutdown should occur.  [Charlie Peterson, DR,
South Rim District, and Mallory Smith, MA, GRCA]

95-756 - Lincoln Home (Illinois) - Death of Employee

Dan Evans, 48, a maintenance mechanic leader at the park, passed away at his
home in Athens, Illinois, on the afternoon of November 27th.  Dan began his
career in the Service as a seasonal laborer in the park's maintenance division
in 1976.  He was an exhibit specialist in Midwest Regional Office from 1978 to
1980, then returned to the park as a maintenance worker in 1980.  He became
work leader in the building sites division in 1989.  Dan was the recipient of
numerous special achievement awards, and was selected as the region's
maintenance employee of the year in 1993 for his accomplishments in the field
of historic preservation.  He is survived by his wife, Carol, his son, Keith,
and his daughter, Lisa.  The funeral will be on Thursday in Springfield,
Illinois.  Condolences may be sent to Mrs. Dan (Carol) Evans and family, 10
Pioneer Drive, Athens, IL 62613-9329.  Donations may be made to Vietnam
Veterans Association, Attention: John Rachford, 4421 Peoria Road, Springfield,
IL 62702.  [Norm Hellmers, Superintendent, LIHO]

95-757 - Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii) - Drug Arrests, Seizure

On the morning of November 26th, rangers arrested J.S., 27, and Jose
Brito, 30, both Mexican nationals, for possession of 7.3 grams of cocaine and 3
grams of black tar heroin.  The total street value of the drugs has been placed
at over $12,000.  Investigators (NPS, DEA and Hawaii County PD) believe that
the two are part of a much larger ring of drug traffickers operating throughout
the state.  [CR, HAVO]

95-758 - Redwoods (California) - Drug Seizures

Over the past weekend, seven persons were cited and released for collecting and
possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms in two separate incidents in Davison
pasture within the park's Humboldt District.  Rangers seized a cubic foot of
psilocybin mushrooms from the five people caught collecting in the second
incident.  [Jane Sikoryak, REDW]

95-759 - Organ Pipe Cactus (Arizona) - EMS Response; Life Saved

The park received word of a 38-year-old female cardiac patient being
transported into the country from Mexico.  Rangers Tillman, Baldree and
Pennington responded and found her to be unconscious, unresponsive and in
apparent cardiac arrest.  Tillman and Baldree began CPR and administered
oxygen, successfully resuscitating the patient.  She went into apparent cardiac
arrest twice more before an ALS unit arrived on scene; the rangers resuscitated
her on both occasions.  She was taken to a hospital in Tucson for further
treatment.  [Aniceto Olais, CR, ORPI]

95-760 - Little River Canyon (Alabama) - Attempted Suicide

Ranger Dwight Dixon received a call of a "man down" at Little River Falls on
November 27th.  When Dixon and emergency personnel arrived, they found J.J.
of Gaylesville, Alabama, lying unconscious on a nearby trail. 
J.J. had suffered from a drug overdose.  He was taken to a local hospital,
where he is currently in intensive care.  J.J. had recently lost his job
and was in the process of a divorce.  [CR, LIRI]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Uniform Ordering - Some parks apparently have not yet received word that the
uniform program has been funded for FY 96 and that ordering may proceed. 
Orders may be mailed or faxed to the contractor at any time.  

2) Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission Public Meetings - The
commission is hosting meetings throughout the west to orient the public on its
works and to solicit feedback from the public on how visibility can be
preserved and improved over the Class I parks and wildernesses of the Colorado
Plateau.  Members of the commission include eight western states, five tribes
and tribal organizations and five federal agencies.  Its work is carried out
through committees composed of representatives from government, industry,
academia, environmental groups and the general public.  Several meetings have
already been held; those remaining are as follows:

     * Portland, Oregon - Location TBA - December 5, 3:30 pm (tribal meeting)
       and 6:30 pm

     * Los Angeles, California - LA Department of Water and Power Cafeteria
       Conference Center - December 7, 5:00 pm

     * Sacramento, California - Air Resources Board Hearing Room - December 5,
       5:00 pm

     * Phoenix, Arizona - Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Auditorium -
       December 4, 7:00 pm

     * Flagstaff, Arizona - University Union, Northern Arizona University -
       December 6, 3:00 pm (tribal meeting) and 7:00 pm

     * Las Vegas, Nevada - Desert Research Institute - November 29, 6:00 pm

     * Albuquerque, New Mexico - Convention Center - November 29, 7:00 pm

     * Santa Fe, New Mexico - Harold Runnels Building - December 4, 7:00 pm

     * Las Cruces, New Mexico - Dona Anna Community College - December 6, 7:00
       pm

     * Salt Lake City, Utah - DEQ - November 30, 6:30 pm

     * Rock Springs, Wyoming - Western Wyoming College - December 6, 6:30 pm

     * Grand Junction, Colorado - Bureau of Land Management - December 6, 7:00
       pm

     * Washington, D.C. - Hall of the States - December 7, 2:00 pm

     * Washington, D.C. - Main Interior - December 7, 11:00 am

For further information, contact GRCA Air Quality Coordinator at NP-GRCA on
cc:Mail.


OBSERVATIONS

Today's entry was provided by Sue Garland from IFO:

"Yet despite these problems, I became aware of a rare attitude in the visitors. 
These were their parks, a part of their heritage, and they felt fiercely
protective of them. I found that to harm or threaten a national park is to
touch a sensitive nerve in the American public.  Many visitors as well as park
employees seemed to live by a set of values rarely seen elsewhere, and that
they themselves might not live by outside the park.  They appreciated the
natural beauty around them - the land, the plants, the birds, the animals.  And
what's more, they showed a regard for other peoples chance to share the park
experience.  They seemed to feel they were part of a whole natural system, and
most of them behaved as if they did not want to leave that system any worse
than they found it, so that others and even future generations could enjoy and
share it."

                                             Robert Cahn, "National Parks in
                                             Crisis", 1980

Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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